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• n  a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
  he played baseball in high school
  there was a baseball game on every empty lot
• n  a ball used in playing baseball

• Thanks to an archaic ownership system, Japanese baseball is losing its best players, its fans and its soul.
• Said Chuck: "This is baseball.
• Nothing betrays the brash architect of baseball's biggest revolution since a Brooklyn pitcher named "Candy" Cummings fired the first curve and separated the men from the bushers.

• baseball game

News & Articles

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• Japan baseball criticized for switching balls
  Japanese baseball officials have been criticized for introducing a new ball this season without notifying players. With nearly 60 games already played, Nippon Professional Baseball acknowledged this week ...
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Japan Baseball Under Fire for Switching Balls
  Japanese baseball league officials are being criticized for introducing a new ball this season without notifying players.
  June 12, 2013 - New York Times
• Baseball: DeMatha’s total team effort results in final No. 1 ranking
  BASEBALL | With its 10th WCAC championship since 1994 - but first since 2008 - DeMatha finishes atop the Post’s rankings.
  June 11, 2013 - Washington Post

Quotes

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• Andy Pettitte in Reuters Canada
  Though it was not against baseball rules, I was not comfortable with what I was doing, so I stopped,Pettitte said. "This is it -- two days out of my life, two days out of my entire career, when I was injured and on the disabled list."
• President Bush in CNN
  Steroids have sullied the game, and players and the owners must take the Mitchell report seriously; I'm confident they will,Bush said. "And my hope is that this report is a part of putting the 'steroid era' of baseball behind us."
• Matt Capps in The Associated Press
  I thought he had a pretty good shot,Nationals closer and All-Star pick Matt Capps said. "He's one of the top pitchers in baseball right now."